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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- With a 10-minute phone call and two tweets, Donald Trump inspired banner headlines and renewed hopes across Taiwan for a stronger partnership with the United States, while also inflaming the complex relationships between the U.S., mainland China, and the self-governing island China regards as a renegade province....
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- The converted warehouse known as the "Ghost Ship" where a deadly fire ripped through a late-night dance party was an artist workspace and illegal home for a rotating cast of a dozen or more residents, those who lived there or visited often said....
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- David West has undergone four surgeries in his long NBA career: left knee, right elbow and right foot twice to fix a couple of toes....
SANTIAGO, Cuba (AP) -- After a week of national mourning that reached near-religious peaks of adulation, Cuban President Raul Castro announced Saturday that his government would prohibit the naming of streets and monuments after his brother Fidel and bar the construction of statues of him in keeping with the former leader's desire to avoid a cult of personality....
MALANA, India (AP) -- For hundreds of years, the tiny village was just a speck lost amid the grandiose mountains of the Indian Himalayas....
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- The Latest on a deadly fire in a converted warehouse in Oakland, California (all times local):...
Yesterday was not just an ordinary SpiritFm day.
Havana, Cuba, Dec 3, 2016 / 03:40 pm (Church Pop).- After Fidel Castro gained power in Cuba in 1959, he spent the next decade slowly imposing socialism on the country, including state atheism.In 1960, several Cuban Catholic bishops signed a letter re-affirming the Church’s long-standing rejection of communism and called for Catholics to reject it. In response, his government confiscated Catholic property and arrested Catholics. Then, in 1969, he banned the celebration of Christmas.This ban on the celebration of one of the Church’s high holy days lasted for nearly three decades until 1998, when St. John Paul II successfully convinced him to remove the ban. Joaquín Navarro-Valls, John Paul II’s spokesman in the 1990s, recently shared the amazing story with Vatican Insider.“I explained to him [Castro] that now that the date of [John Paul II’s] visit was set – for 21 January 1998 – it would be interesting if it were a great success,&rdquo...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Green Party-backed voters dropped a court case Saturday night that had sought to force a statewide recount of Pennsylvania's Nov. 8 presidential election, won by Republican Donald Trump, in what Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein had framed as an effort to explore whether voting machines and systems had been hacked and the election result manipulated....
